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« on: October 09, 2014, 12:43:43 PM »

Managed to be even more deplorable than the Stuart dynasty.
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« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2014, 01:17:38 PM »

Why would I go into detail when you've already covered the bases? (I would add, "James I filling his court with cronies", the "execution of Walter Raleigh", being "completely financially incapable", and a couple more, but you catch my drift)

The claim that the Stuarts were instituting "tyranny" by attempting to allow a limited measure of religious freedom is something of a 17th-century mirror of the modern argument that allowing same-sex marriage is "tyranny." Complete with the role of "activist judges" replaced by "absolute monarchs."

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« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2014, 03:23:03 PM »

OK, probably should have said "almost" as bad as the Stuarts :/ They really were a rotten lot thinking about it.
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